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TIL that Disneyland uses stray cats to fend off mice.

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b6ojj TIL about Royce Williams who in 1952 was engaged in a one-man dogfight with seven MiG-15s that lasted 35 minutes.
vPLXx TIL during the French Revolution, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, changed his name to "Citizen Égalité", advocated against absolute monarchy, and in the National Convention, voted to guillotine Louis XVI. Despite this, he still executed in 1793 during Reign of Terror as an enemy of the republic.
ADNAn TIL that Tom Hanks was signed on to play Mario in the Super Mario Bros. film, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was approached to play King Koopa (Bowser).
V1M8 TIL that every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats this fine hair, called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called meconium.
QJE5L TIL the space shuttle was originally designed to collect Soviet satellites and return them to the USA for reverse engineering